Weekly astro luncheons

Schedule for the Winter of 2005:

Fridays in the small lunch room at 12

7 Jan Erik Zackrisson Gravitational microlensing and dark matter
13-15 Jan no astro lunch 3rd Astrobiology meeting
21 Jan no astro lunch meeting of the Astrophysics Subfield Committee
28 Jan lunch room is occupied (accretion disk workshop in Kyoto, 25-28 Jan) [Photos I, II]
4 Feb Oleg Kochukhov Magnetic Fields and Structure Formation in Stellar Atmospheres [html, PowerPoint]
11 Feb no astro lunch (dynamo meeting in Perm, 7-11 Feb) [Photos]
18 Feb Axel Brandenburg Solar dynamo and near-surface shear
25 Feb Boris Dintrans 2-D models of the excitation of internal gravity waves by penetrative convection
28 Feb Nordita Workdays on QPOs [Photos, Juri's Photos]
1 Mar (Riga dynamo experiment [Photos]
4 Mar (Turbulence meeting in Oslo, Hans Pecseli, 3-7 March)
7 Mar Fillipo Vernizzi Non-Gaussianity
14 Mar no seminar
21 Mar (IPAM meeting in LA, 18 Mar - 11 Apr)
25 Apr (EGU 2005 meeting in Vienna, 25-29 Apr)
2 May Anupam Mazumdar Highlights from the String Cosmology Workshop in Uppsala
Wladimir Lyra Overview of recent work
9 May (Nonlinear Cosmology, Trieste, 9 -12 May)
16 May (Pinsedag)
23 May Computational Problems in Physics (Helsinki, 23 -27 Jun)
30 May Astrobiology meeting (McMaster, 23 May - 4 Jun)
17 Jun Torgny Karlsson The epoch of reionization and the origin of the chemically most ancient stars
20-21 Jun Workshop MHD shocks (Aud B)
26-28 Jun Workshop Pencil Code Development (Aud B)

Upcoming events

Accretion Flows and Jets (Kyoto, January 2005)
Sasha Kosovichev meeting (Bern, March 2005)
Climate group (will continue in the spring of 2005)
Nonlinear Cosmology: Turbulence and Fields (meeting in Trieste, 9 -12 May 2005)
Nordic Science Communication – Bridging the Gap? (meeting in Copenhagen, 13 May 2005)
Computational Problems in Physics (meeting in Helsinki, 23 -27 May 2005)
Atmospheric and molecular science (Helsingør, 2-4 Jun)
Unsteady Methods for Turbulent Combustion Prediction and Validation (meeting in Darmstadt, 16-17 Jun 2005)
High Energy Astrophysics (meeting in Scotland, 27 Jun - 1 July 2005)
Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (Tromsø, 4 - 8 July 2005)
Solar MHD (Sac Peak, 18-22 July 2005)
The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism (Bologna, 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2005)
The Dynamic Sun: Challenges for Theory and Observations (Leuven, 11-16 Sept 2005)
Confinement-Driven Spatial Variations in the Cosmic Ray Flux (Paris, 12-15 Sept 2005)
Cool Stars 14 (Pasadena, 6-10 November 2006)

Other useful links

Sun-Climate connection
International Heliophysical Year (IHY)

Job opportunities

Post-doc (Potsdam) (deadline 15 Jul 2005)
Post-doc (Rochester) (deadline 31 Aug 2005)
Post-doc (Toulouse) (deadline 16 May 2005)
Graduate School in High Energy Astrophysics (Stockholm)
Post-doc in Astrophysical Discs (Cambridge) (deadline 1 Feb 2005)
PhD position in astrophysical fluid dynamics (Univ. Würzburg)
Fellowships and Stipends in Cosmology (Copenhagen) (1 August)
Biophysics/turbulence (Madrid) (20 July)

Visitors this term

Petri Kapyla: 10-16 Jan
Brigitta von Rekowski: 11-19 Feb
Boris Dintrans: 12-27 Feb
Andrew Snodin: 7-13 March
Wladimir Lyra: 26 Apr-6 May
Christian Klingenberg: 19-22 May
Karl-Heinz Raedler: 5-17
Martin Schrinner: 5-15
Ralph Sutherland: 14-17 June (canceled)

If you have a visitor, please fill in this form, and email to brandenb@nordita.dk. It is especially important to have the visitors email address on the form (for hotel reservation purposes, so the secretary can verify the dates and can be sure about date changes). Please use a separate form for each visitor.

Before the visitor comes: this is how the Nordita building looks like!
After office hours, it looks like this!
Description how to find us.

  • Mailing List (to see who gets the email announcements)
  • Nordita Travel Schedule (to see who is away and when)
    Our t-shirt logos:

    Version 1.1 Official version


    Links to earlier schedules

    2004: 1, 2, 3,

    2003: 1, 2, 3,

    2002: 1, 2, 3.

    2001: 3.


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